Professor imprisoned for sex with teen

A longtime professor at Rochester Institute of Technology drew an 11-year prison sentence Thursday for enticing a 14-year-old boy he met online to have sex with him.

The Associated Press

A longtime professor at Rochester Institute of Technology drew an 11-year prison sentence Thursday for enticing a 14-year-old boy he met online to have sex with him.

Michael Krembel, 64, was ordered to federal prison Thursday on a felony count of coercion and enticement of a minor to engage in sexual activity.

Krembel taught for 35 years at RIT’s National Technical Institute for the Deaf and lost his job as an associate professor of graphic arts once he pleaded guilty in May.

Authorities said that Krembel molested the teenager at least twice in the winter of 2006, once at the victim’s home in Batavia. He was arrested in a Batavia parking lot in January after arranging a sexual encounter with a police officer who had posed online as a 14-year-old boy.

Friends and colleagues who wrote glowing testimonials, some ascribing his behavior to a sickness, “were struggling for some way to explain the dichotomy they see in this man,” Andolina said at sentencing.

But U.S. District Judge Charles Siragusa said Krembel committed intolerable acts.